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Rendezvous
Definitions
- 1 A meeting or date.
"I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours."
- 2 a meeting planned at a certain time and place wordnet
- 3 An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
"Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours."
- 4 a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex wordnet
- 5 A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
"an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers"
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- 6 a place where people meet wordnet
- 7 The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
"The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough."
- 8 A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- 9 A retreat or refuge. obsolete
"A rendeuous, a home to fly unto"
- 1 To meet at an agreed time and place. intransitive
"Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there."
- 2 meet at a rendezvous wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
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